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+# Pitch & Presentation Frameworks
+
+> Version: 1.0.0 | Agents: oren-klaff, nancy-duarte | Domain: pitching, presentations
+
+## Overview
+
+Pitches and presentations are high-stakes storytelling: you have a defined window of time, a specific audience with existing beliefs, and a single desired outcome. Two master specialists cover distinct territory:
+
+- **Nancy Duarte:** Presentation design, data storytelling, audience as hero — empowerment model
+- **Oren Klaff:** Investor pitches, frame control, neurofinance — persuasion model
+
+They have different philosophies (audience empowerment vs frame dominance) — use one or the other depending on context.
+
+---
+
+## Nancy Duarte — Sparkline Framework
+
+**Source:** "Resonate: Present Visual Stories That Transform Audiences" (2010)
+
+### Core Principle
+
+Great presentations oscillate between **What Is** (current reality) and **What Could Be** (envisioned future). The contrast creates dramatic tension. The audience is moved from passive reception to active desire.
+
+Duarte studied the greatest speeches in history (Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream," Steve Jobs' iPhone launch, JFK's moon speech) and found the same structural pattern: constant oscillation between the difficult present and the beautiful possible future.
+
+### The Sparkline Structure
+
+```
+OPENING: WHAT IS (the current state — audience's painful reality)
+    ↕ toggle
+    WHAT COULD BE (the possibility)
+    ↕ toggle
+    WHAT IS (the cost of inaction)
+    ↕ toggle
+    WHAT COULD BE (the vision expanded)
+    ↕ toggle
+    WHAT IS (the obstacles)
+    ↕ toggle
+    WHAT COULD BE (the solution)
+
+[S.T.A.R. MOMENT: Something They'll Always Remember]
+
+CALL TO ACTION (specific, achievable, immediate)
+NEW BLISS (the vivid transformed future if they act)
+```
+
+### The STAR Moment
+
+Every great presentation has one moment the audience will remember forever. Duarte calls it the S.T.A.R. moment:
+
+| Type | Description | Example |
+|------|-------------|---------|
+| **Memorable dramatization** | Live demo, physical act, surprise | Jobs pulling MacBook Air from manila envelope |
+| **Shocking statistic** | One number that reframes everything | "Every 33 seconds, someone has a heart attack in this room" |
+| **Evocative visual** | Image that can't be unsaid | Malala's school after Taliban attack |
+| **Surprising moment** | Something unexpected | Jobs calling the Starbucks in keynote live |
+| **Emotional story** | One human moment | The personal story that personifies the whole problem |
+
+The STAR moment should come in the second half of the presentation, after tension has built sufficiently.
+
+### The Audience is the Hero
+
+Duarte's most important insight: **in your presentation, you are not the hero. The audience is the hero.** You are Yoda. They are Luke.
+
+Most presenters fail because they make the presentation about themselves — their company, their product, their journey. The audience doesn't care. They care about themselves.
+
+To make the audience the hero:
+- Frame every problem as THEIR problem
+- Frame every solution as THEIR victory
+- Frame every obstacle as something THEY will overcome
+- Your role is to give them tools, inspiration, and permission
+
+### DataStory Framework (Duarte)
+
+For data-heavy presentations:
+
+1. **Set up the story with data** — what does the data show?
+2. **Highlight the interesting** — which data point is surprising, concerning, or promising?
+3. **Create the narrative** — what does this data mean for the audience's situation?
+4. **Propose the action** — what should change based on this data?
+
+**Rule:** One insight per slide. A slide that needs explanation has failed. The best data slides communicate their message before the presenter speaks.
+
+---
+
+## Oren Klaff — STRONG Method
+
+**Source:** "Pitch Anything" (2011) + "Flip the Script" (2019)
+
+### The Neuroscience Foundation
+
+Klaff's method is grounded in neuroeconomics. When you pitch, your message is processed by three layers:
+
+| Brain Layer | Name | What It Filters |
+|-------------|------|----------------|
+| **Neocortex** | "New Brain" | Complex reasoning, analysis |
+| **Limbic** | "Mid Brain" | Social context, relationships |
+| **Reptilian** | "Croc Brain" | Survival, danger, basic drives |
+
+**The problem:** Sophisticated pitch content (financial models, feature lists, technical specs) activates the neocortex. But decisions are made in the croc brain and limbic system. Your brilliant pitch is never heard by the decision-making brain.
+
+**The solution:** Frame everything to bypass the analytical brain and speak to the croc brain and limbic system first.
+
+### The 6 Phases of STRONG
+
+| Phase | Name | Purpose |
+|-------|------|---------|
+| **S** | Set the Frame | Establish dominance before the first word |
+| **T** | Tell the Story | Narrative activates more brain than data |
+| **R** | Reveal the Intrigue | Create a loop the brain needs to close |
+| **O** | Offer the Prize | Flip the dynamic — YOU are desirable, not desperate |
+| **N** | Nail the Hookpoint | Create the moment where the buyer leans in |
+| **G** | Get the Deal | Close with clarity, not neediness |
+
+### The 5 Frames
+
+Frames are the context in which your pitch is interpreted. Whoever controls the frame controls the interaction.
+
+| Frame | Who Uses It | Purpose |
+|-------|-------------|---------|
+| **Power Frame** | Established authority | Establish status |
+| **Time Frame** | The investor | Creates pressure and urgency |
+| **Analyst Frame** | The skeptic | Questions everything, avoids risk |
+| **Prize Frame (Offensive)** | The pitcher | Reverses desire — pitcher is the prize |
+| **Intrigue Frame (Recovery)** | The pitcher | Resets attention when losing the room |
+
+**Frame collision:** When two frames meet, one wins. The goal is to win the frame collision without aggression — through calm confidence and unexpected moves.
+
+### Hot Cognition vs Cold Cognition
+
+Klaff's critical distinction:
+
+| State | Brain Activity | Decision Quality |
+|-------|---------------|-----------------|
+| **Hot cognition** | Croc brain active, limbic engaged | Decisions based on desire and instinct |
+| **Cold cognition** | Neocortex engaged, analyzing | Decisions based on analysis and skepticism |
+
+**The goal:** Keep the audience in hot cognition. Cold cognition kills deals because analysis enables objection. Hot cognition enables desire-driven decisions.
+
+How to trigger hot cognition:
+- Narrative (story activates mirror neurons)
+- Status frames (social dynamics engage the limbic)
+- Novelty (unexpected information engages attention)
+- Intrigue (open loops the brain must close)
+
+### You Are the Prize
+
+The most counterintuitive insight in Klaff: in high-stakes pitches, **you must position yourself as the prize**, not as the supplicant.
+
+Most pitchers approach investors with implicit neediness: "Please invest in us." This activates the analyst frame in the investor. They become evaluators of your worth.
+
+The prize frame inverts this: "You should want to be part of this. Here's what you'd be missing." This positions the investor as seeking your acceptance, not the reverse.
+
+**Prize frame behaviors:**
+- Let meetings end on time (even if the investor wants to continue)
+- Demonstrate other interest parties
+- Show genuine selectivity about partners
+- Walk away from deals that don't meet your terms
+
+---
+
+## Comparing Duarte vs Klaff
+
+| Dimension | Duarte (Sparkline) | Klaff (STRONG) |
+|-----------|-------------------|----------------|
+| Philosophy | Audience empowerment | Frame control |
+| The presenter | Yoda (guide) | Prize (desired authority) |
+| Audience role | Hero | Evaluator to be won |
+| Best for | Keynotes, TED, internal presentations | Investor pitches, sales deals |
+| Core tension | Present vs Future | Desire vs Analysis |
+| Primary tool | Emotional oscillation | Croc brain activation |
+| Conflict | Don't use together for same pitch | Don't use together for same pitch |
+
+---
+
+## Pitch Deck Structure (Best Practice Synthesis)
+
+For startup/investor pitches, synthesizing Klaff's STRONG with investor expectations:
+
+| Slide | Content | Klaff Phase |
+|-------|---------|-------------|
+| 1. The Problem | The pain, the market gap — make it vivid | Tell the Story |
+| 2. The Solution | Your approach — clear differentiation | Tell the Story |
+| 3. Why Now | Market timing, tailwinds | Reveal Intrigue |
+| 4. The Market | TAM/SAM/SOM — with narrative, not just numbers | Set the Frame |
+| 5. Business Model | How money flows — keep it simple | Nail the Hookpoint |
+| 6. Traction | Proof it's working — social proof | Offer the Prize |
+| 7. Competition | Honest positioning — shows you know the landscape | Set the Frame |
+| 8. Team | Why you are the right people | Offer the Prize |
+| 9. Financials | 3-year projections — the narrative of growth | Nail the Hookpoint |
+| 10. The Ask | Clear, specific — amount, use of funds | Get the Deal |
+
+---
+
+## The 3-Minute Pitch (Elevator Version)
+
+Based on Klaff's hookpoint structure:
+
+```
+[INTRIGUE OPENER - 20 seconds]
+"For the last 3 years, [unexpected fact about market]."
+
+[PROBLEM NARRATIVE - 40 seconds]
+"And the reason for that is [the specific problem], which means [customer consequence]."
+
+[SOLUTION FRAME - 40 seconds]
+"We've built [what you do] that [specific mechanism] — the only solution that [differentiator]."
+
+[TRACTION AS PRIZE - 30 seconds]
+"In the last 6 months: [metric 1], [metric 2], [metric 3]."
+
+[THE CLOSE - 30 seconds]
+"We're raising [amount] to [specific use]. The round closes [date]. Does this look like something worth 20 minutes?"
+```
+
+---
+
+## Cross-Reference
+
+- **Kindra Hall's 4 Stories** provides the story content that powers Klaff and Duarte's structures
+- **Park Howell's ABT** can quick-diagnose the narrative logic of any pitch
+- **Blake Snyder's Beat Sheet** maps Duarte's sparkline to visual storytelling structure

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+# Social Movement Narratives — Marshall Ganz
+
+> Version: 1.0.0 | Agent: marshall-ganz | Domain: movement-organizing, public-narrative
+
+## Overview
+
+Marshall Ganz spent 16 years as an organizer with Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers, then became a faculty member at Harvard Kennedy School. His framework — Public Narrative — is the most powerful methodology for translating personal values into collective action.
+
+Ganz's insight: **leaders don't organize people around ideas. They organize people around stories.** A policy position cannot move people to sacrifice. A story about why that policy matters — rooted in specific human experience — can.
+
+Obama's 2008 presidential campaign used Ganz's framework at scale. It's also used by climate activists, union organizers, faith communities, and social entrepreneurs worldwide.
+
+---
+
+## The Public Narrative Framework
+
+Public Narrative consists of three interlocking stories that together create the conditions for collective action:
+
+```
+STORY OF SELF      — Why I was called to lead
+STORY OF US        — The shared values that unite us
+STORY OF NOW       — The urgent challenge we face together
+```
+
+These are not separate speeches. They are three movements in a single narrative arc that builds from personal to communal to urgent.
+
+---
+
+## Story of Self — Why I Was Called
+
+### Purpose
+Establish leadership credibility not through credentials, but through demonstrated values. The Story of Self answers: "Why should we listen to you? Why are you the one to lead on this?"
+
+### Structure
+A narrative from the leader's own life that reveals the values driving their work — specifically, the moment when they were called to this work.
+
+**The call narrative:** A story of a specific moment when the leader faced a choice — a challenge, an injustice, a loss, or an opportunity. The choice they made reveals their values. The consequence of that choice reveals what's at stake.
+
+### Key Elements
+
+1. **A specific moment** — Not "I grew up poor" but "The day the bank knocked on the door and my father wasn't home, I answered. I was nine years old."
+2. **A genuine challenge** — Something was at risk, something was difficult
+3. **A choice made** — The leader chose to act (or not act — learning from not acting)
+4. **An outcome** — What happened as a result
+5. **The learning** — What this moment taught about the value at stake
+
+### Common Mistakes
+
+- **Biography instead of narrative** — Listing background facts is not a Story of Self. The story must have a specific challenge, a choice, and a consequence.
+- **Too polished** — Rehearsed, controlled delivery suggests performance. The Story of Self works when it feels vulnerable and true.
+- **Credentials as story** — "I have 20 years of experience" is not a story. The experience must be embodied in a narrative moment.
+- **Abstract values** — "I believe in justice" is a statement. The story must show a concrete moment when justice was at stake.
+
+---
+
+## Story of Us — Our Shared Values
+
+### Purpose
+Connect the leader's individual story to the shared story of the community — the values, experiences, and challenges that make "us" an "us." The Story of Us answers: "Why do we care about this together?"
+
+### Structure
+Draw on shared experiences, challenges, and values that unite the group. This is not about demographics — it's about the experiences and values that create communal identity.
+
+**Key insight:** "Us" is always defined by contrast. "We" the farmworkers who deserve dignity vs. "them" the systems that deny it. The contrast clarifies the shared identity.
+
+### Elements
+
+1. **Shared experience** — "We all know what it's like to [common challenge]"
+2. **Shared values** — "That's why we believe [specific value]"
+3. **Shared history** — "We've shown who we are when [previous moment of courage or achievement]"
+4. **Collective identity** — "That's who we are as [group name/movement name]"
+
+### Building "Us" Without "Them"
+
+Effective movements build strong "Us" identity. They may name the "Them" (the problem, the system, the power structure) — but they are careful not to define themselves only in opposition. The strongest identity is positive: "We are for X" not just "We are against Y."
+
+---
+
+## Story of Now — The Urgent Challenge
+
+### Purpose
+Translate values into action by creating a specific, urgent call. The Story of Now answers: "What must we do, and why must we do it now?"
+
+### Structure
+
+1. **The specific challenge** — Not a general problem, but this problem, right now
+2. **The hopeful choice** — The action available to us
+3. **The hopeful outcome** — Why taking this action can make a difference
+4. **The specific ask** — What exactly the audience should do, when, and how
+
+### The Urgency Principle
+
+Without urgency, even moved people don't act. Urgency is created by:
+- **Time constraint** — "The vote is tomorrow"
+- **Consequential moment** — "This is the year we can change this"
+- **Momentum** — "We have never been this close"
+- **Threshold** — "We need 500 more signatures to trigger a hearing"
+
+### The Hopeful Frame
+
+Ganz is explicit: the Story of Now must be hopeful, not despairing. Fear can motivate individual action but does not build collective resilience. The Story of Now says: "This is hard. It is urgent. AND we can do it, because [evidence of capacity]."
+
+---
+
+## Why Story Works for Organizing
+
+### The Emotional-Values Connection
+
+Ganz identifies two types of emotion in narrative:
+- **Fear/isolation** — Paralyzes action; turns inward
+- **Anger/solidarity** — Energizes action; turns outward toward collective change
+
+Effective organizing stories move from fear/isolation toward anger/solidarity — not through manipulation, but by showing that the audience is not alone and that action is possible.
+
+### From Values to Action
+
+The story pathway:
+```
+Personal experience → Specific emotion → Values revealed
+Values recognized by audience → Collective identity formed
+Collective identity + Urgent challenge → Motivation to act
+Motivation + Specific ask → Action taken
+```
+
+Without the story, you're asking people to act on abstract principle. With the story, you're asking them to act on lived recognition.
+
+---
+
+## Storytelling for Leadership vs. Marketing
+
+Ganz's framework is about **leadership**, not marketing. The distinction matters:
+
+| Dimension | Marketing Story | Leadership Story |
+|-----------|----------------|-----------------|
+| Goal | Change behavior (purchase) | Change identity (who we are together) |
+| Direction | Brand to customer | Leader to community |
+| Orientation | Product benefit | Shared values and challenge |
+| Duration | Transactional | Relational |
+| Trust | Built through consistency | Built through vulnerability |
+
+However, the structural insights (specific moment, genuine challenge, values revealed, collective identity, urgent action) apply to both.
+
+---
+
+## Applying Public Narrative to Business Leadership
+
+### For Organizational Change
+
+When a leader needs to mobilize a team around change:
+
+**Story of Self:** The leader's own experience that taught them why this change matters — not the business case, but the human story behind it.
+
+**Story of Us:** The team's shared history — past challenges overcome, shared values demonstrated, collective capacity proven.
+
+**Story of Now:** The specific challenge facing the organization and the specific action the team must take.
+
+### For Startup Founder Communication
+
+- **Story of Self:** Why the founder started this company (the real story, with a specific moment)
+- **Story of Us:** The community the startup serves (their shared problem, their shared aspiration)
+- **Story of Now:** Why this problem must be solved now, and why this team is the one to solve it
+
+### For Activist Campaigns
+
+The framework is most powerful when:
+1. The leader delivers their Story of Self authentically (not a speech — a genuine moment)
+2. The Us story connects to specific shared experiences (not vague "we all want a better world")
+3. The Now story has a specific, achievable ask with a clear deadline
+
+---
+
+## The Three Stories as a Full Speech
+
+A well-constructed 10-minute public narrative speech:
+
+| Section | Duration | Content |
+|---------|----------|---------|
+| Story of Self | 2-3 minutes | One specific challenge → choice → outcome |
+| Transition | 30 seconds | "My story is not unique. You know this story too." |
+| Story of Us | 2-3 minutes | Our shared experience and values |
+| Transition | 30 seconds | "That's why we can't let this moment pass." |
+| Story of Now | 2-3 minutes | The challenge, the choice, the specific ask |
+| Close | 30 seconds | The hopeful vision of what becomes possible |
+
+---
+
+## Cross-Reference
+
+- **Joseph Campbell's Monomyth** provides the archetypal depth that Ganz's Story of Self draws from
+- **Nancy Duarte's Sparkline** applies when the public narrative is delivered as a designed presentation
+- **Kindra Hall's 4 Stories** provides structure for the business version of the founder and purpose stories

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+# Story Circle — Dan Harmon Deep Reference
+
+> Version: 1.0.0 | Agent: dan-harmon | Domain: tv-episodic, character-driven
+
+## Overview
+
+Dan Harmon developed the Story Circle while running Channel 101 and later as showrunner of Community (NBC). It is the most practical and approachable narrative framework ever created — a compression of Campbell's monomyth into 8 steps that can be drawn as a circle and applied at any story scale.
+
+**Origin:** Harmon kept failing to write stories that felt satisfying. He obsessively studied structure until he found the minimum viable unit of story. The circle was the result.
+
+---
+
+## The 8-Step Story Circle
+
+```
+                    YOU (1)
+                 /           \
+          CHANGE (8)         NEED (2)
+         /                         \
+    RETURN (7)                   GO (3)
+         \                         /
+          TAKE (6)            SEARCH (4)
+                 \           /
+                   FIND (5)
+```
+
+| Step | Name | Description |
+|------|------|-------------|
+| **1** | **YOU** | A character exists in their zone of comfort — the familiar world, the status quo. |
+| **2** | **NEED** | Something is needed or wanted — a lack, a desire, a problem that demands attention. |
+| **3** | **GO** | The character enters an unfamiliar situation — crosses the threshold into the unknown. |
+| **4** | **SEARCH** | The character adapts to the unfamiliar, struggles, fails, learns — the messy middle. |
+| **5** | **FIND** | The character gets what they wanted — the apparent goal is achieved. |
+| **6** | **TAKE** | The character pays a price — getting what you want always costs something. |
+| **7** | **RETURN** | The character returns to their familiar situation — transformed. |
+| **8** | **CHANGE** | The character has changed — they are different from who they were in step 1. |
+
+---
+
+## The Circle as Philosophy
+
+The circle encodes a profound truth: **every meaningful story is about change, and change requires cost.**
+
+The top half of the circle is the **comfortable, familiar world** (consciousness/daytime).
+The bottom half is the **unfamiliar, dangerous world** (unconscious/nighttime).
+
+Crossing into the bottom half is always a choice. The step from GO to SEARCH is the "yes" that makes the story happen. The step from RETURN to CHANGE is the proof that something real occurred.
+
+**Harmon's core insight:** If someone wants something, goes somewhere, struggles, gets it, but there's no cost and no change — it's not a story. It's a sequence of events.
+
+---
+
+## The Fractal Property
+
+The Story Circle works at every scale simultaneously:
+
+| Scale | Example |
+|-------|---------|
+| **Series** | Breaking Bad: Walter White (YOU) needs money → goes into drugs (GO) → becomes Heisenberg (FIND) → loses family (TAKE) → admits the truth (CHANGE) |
+| **Season** | Each season of Community follows a full circle arc |
+| **Episode** | A single episode follows the complete circle |
+| **Scene** | A 3-minute conversation can have all 8 steps |
+| **Beat** | A single moment of realization is a micro-circle |
+
+This is why great TV feels simultaneously satisfying in each individual scene AND across the full series — the fractal is operational at all levels.
+
+---
+
+## Characters Have Needs AND Goals
+
+Harmon distinguishes between what the character **wants** (the goal, the conscious desire) and what the character **needs** (the deeper lack, often unconscious):
+
+- **Want:** External objective — what the plot is about
+- **Need:** Internal wound — what the story is really about
+
+The character achieves the WANT by the midpoint (step 5). The NEED is only resolved by CHANGE (step 8). The want and need are usually in tension. Getting the want often prevents getting the need — until the character learns to sacrifice the want.
+
+**Example — Community's Jeff Winger:**
+- Want: Fake his way through college, avoid genuine connection
+- Need: Authentic friendship and belonging
+- The story only works because these are in conflict
+
+---
+
+## Applying the Story Circle to Business Content
+
+### For Customer Stories
+```
+YOU:     [Customer before your product — their daily reality]
+NEED:    [The specific problem or desire that was nagging them]
+GO:      [The decision to try your solution — crossing the threshold]
+SEARCH:  [The learning curve, the first attempts, the friction]
+FIND:    [The moment it clicked — the specific win]
+TAKE:    [What they had to give up or change — honesty adds credibility]
+RETURN:  [Back to daily work, but now different]
+CHANGE:  [How they see themselves and their work differently now]
+```
+
+### For Personal Brand Content
+```
+YOU:     [Who I was before the insight]
+NEED:    [What was missing or broken in my thinking]
+GO:      [The decision to explore, experiment, or change]
+SEARCH:  [The struggle, the failure, the confusion]
+FIND:    [The realization, the discovery, the breakthrough]
+TAKE:    [What I had to let go of — an old belief, a comfortable habit]
+RETURN:  [Back to practice, but with new understanding]
+CHANGE:  [How my work is different now]
+```
+
+### For Brand Origin Stories
+```
+YOU:     [The founder in the ordinary world — their expertise, their frustration]
+NEED:    [The market gap or problem they couldn't ignore]
+GO:      [The decision to build — quitting the job, starting the company]
+SEARCH:  [The early struggles, the pivots, the failures]
+FIND:    [The product-market fit, the first real win]
+TAKE:    [The cost — relationships strained, resources depleted, years spent]
+RETURN:  [Back to the market, now with a real solution]
+CHANGE:  [The company and the founder as a different entity]
+```
+
+---
+
+## The Story Circle vs. The Hero's Journey
+
+| Dimension | Hero's Journey (Campbell) | Story Circle (Harmon) |
+|-----------|--------------------------|----------------------|
+| Steps | 17 (Campbell) / 12 (Vogler) | 8 |
+| Complexity | High — requires deep study | Low — learnable in one session |
+| Scale | Macro (epics, films, myths) | Any scale (scene to series) |
+| Emphasis | External journey and transformation | Internal need and change |
+| Best for | Epic narratives, brand mythology | TV, episodic, any practical writing |
+| Overlap | Stages 1-5 map to Departure/Initiation | Compression of the same pattern |
+
+---
+
+## Episode Structure Application
+
+For a 22-minute sitcom episode (Community model):
+
+| Step | Approx. Time | What Happens |
+|------|-------------|--------------|
+| YOU | 0:00-2:00 | Character in normal context |
+| NEED | 2:00-4:00 | Problem or desire established |
+| GO | 4:00-6:00 | Character commits to a course of action |
+| SEARCH | 6:00-14:00 | The long middle — obstacles, escalating complications |
+| FIND | 14:00-16:00 | Apparent resolution — gets what they wanted |
+| TAKE | 16:00-18:00 | Cost becomes clear — it wasn't worth it, or came with conditions |
+| RETURN | 18:00-20:00 | Back to the original world |
+| CHANGE | 20:00-22:00 | Reflection, transformation, new state |
+
+---
+
+## Common Story Circle Failures
+
+| Failure | Diagnosis | Fix |
+|---------|-----------|-----|
+| No real change in step 8 | The character just had an adventure | The final state must differ from step 1 |
+| No cost in step 6 | Story feels too easy | What does getting the want cost? |
+| Skipping step 4 | Story resolves too quickly | The search needs real struggle and failure |
+| Want = Need | No internal conflict | Separate external goal from internal wound |
+| The circle is too tidy | Story feels mechanical | The circle is a diagnostic, not a recipe |
+
+---
+
+## Cross-Reference
+
+- **Campbell's Monomyth** is the mythic substrate — Harmon's circle is its practical compression
+- **Blake Snyder's Beat Sheet** maps similarly but focuses on commercial screenplay structure
+- **Kindra Hall's Normal-Explosion-New Normal** is a further compression for business stories